Bressuire, France
Covi
Family-owned French co-manufacturer specializing in canned prepared dishes, meat products, and legumes using retort sterilization since 1967.
Groupe COVI is an independent family group and leading European processor of canned prepared foods, headquartered in Bressuire in western France. Since its founding in 1967, the company has developed expertise in manufacturing shelf-stable products including prepared dishes, tripe products, canned meats, terrines, pâtés, legumes, and cereals. The company is particularly renowned as Europe's leading producer of corned beef and tripe products.
The group operates three specialized production sites and serves numerous distributors and brands across France and more than 50 countries globally. COVI offers both private-label and custom-manufactured products, leveraging its culinary know-how and industrial expertise to deliver tailored solutions. The company emphasizes its human-scale organization, which enables rapid decision-making and responsiveness to client needs while maintaining significant production capacity.
COVI's commitment extends to nutrition and health, sustainable sourcing practices, and quality assurance with controls at every production stage. The company specializes in thermal processing and retort sterilization techniques to ensure product safety and extended shelf life, supported by dedicated research and development capabilities for recipe customization.
Capabilities
- Meat & seafood
- Fresh & processed meat
- Sauces
- Soups
- Thermal
- Retorting
- Packaging
- Canning
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